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Megathread for Reddit News & App Shutdowns (self.technology)

submitted 1 year ago by alyaza to c/technology

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[–] thumbtack 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

hi, do you think you could walk me through how to download something like this or point me in the direction of a guide or something that could? i’ve been using lemmy just on browser but would be interested in something like this, i’ve just never installed anything like it before and don’t quite know what to do :) thanks!

[–] tombuben 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Open https://wefwef.app in your mobile browser, open the share slid out menu or however that menu is called and click on "add to home screen". That's it.

[–] Helvedeshunden 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

One thing to be aware of is that it should probably be done with the original system browser, so Safari on iOS and Chrome / Samsung Internet on Android. At least I didn't seem to get the option to add to home screen from Firefox on Android, and I'm also not sure every iOS browser will have add to home screen in the share sheet.

[–] SilentStorms@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's an "Install" button in Firefox in the menu.

[–] Helvedeshunden 1 points 1 year ago

OK, thanks. Guess I must have overlooked it when I searched for it (because I started in Firefox). I still think it's worth to be aware of in case people use some really specialized browsers with certain limitations.

[–] ghost_bird 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks for sharing! This looks nice.

[–] madjo@geddit.social 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Go to wefwef.app in your browser. Now open the options menu of your browser (the three dots, if on Android, the square with the arrow pointing up, if on iOS) and find the option to put a bookmark on your home screen (in iOS it's called "add to home screen")

This will create a sandboxed version of wefwef.app, tap it and it should load like a normal app. (this is what Apple envisioned as apps way back when, before they realized that they could make money selling apps)

When the page has loaded, in the bottom middle, tap on "lemmy.world", and log in to your Lemmy instance.

Enjoy.

One thing to be aware of. If you have selected more than one language in your Lemmy profile, wefwef fails to post comments because you need to select which language you typed in, and you can't select that (yet?) in wefwef.

[–] thumbtack 3 points 1 year ago

thanks so much! this looks super awesome :)